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    Assessing Nigerian Leaders of Pre-School for Improvement: A Focus on their Personnel Function
    (Faculty of Educational Studies, University of Winneba, Ghana, 2005-09-12) Onyene, V. E.
    This study is aimed at probing the extent to which head teachers: proprietor/ proprietress-owner-managers of preschools in Lagos state adopt and apply interpersonal skills as a leadership strategy in their personnel administration. Using an unstructured instrument titled; Interpersonal Leadership Skill Questionnaire, (ILSQ), 225 teachers were used to assess their school heads interactive skills in a perceived manner. Eleven interpersonal Skill variable; were studied but only four were discussed" detail as most crucial. Both the simple percentile ranking and the chi-test of significance were used in data analysis. The findings include among others; that preschool heads ability to transform behaviour of their workers was rated low expectation' at 31.6%; and 15.1% on 'high expectation'; the Chi-test result at df=2; significant level 0.05 = critical val.5.991 showed that these head teachers as significantly low in the prevalent patterns of interpersonal skill application.
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    Conflict Resolution in Nigerian Universities: The University of Lagos Experience
    (Journal of Educational Foundation, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2006-12-11) Onyene, V. E.; Oladipo, S. A.
    University size, location, students' population, mission, specialization, governance, and prevailing unionization sentiments are contributory factors to institutional conflicts. What triggers conflicts perhaps, even large crises (or dispute) in one campus may be inconceivable in another. However, University based conflicts share a lot in common to be universally understood. Conflict development is a circumstance which increases the chances of inter group or interpersonal interest disagreements. The phenomenon of student unrest is however fast becoming an integral part of life in Nigeria university campuses. This paper examines conflict resolution Techniques which incorporates the mediation efforts of the students, parents, teachers, the university authority, government representatives and other stakeholders. It is against this premise that the need for decentralizing problem solving starts from the office of the Dean of Students Affairs to other relevant offices to maximise the benefits of various approaches as well as to minimise conflict on-set to the lowest possible level. The paper also establishes the need for universities to carve out a central conflict identification and resolution unit in order to either knip problems on-the-bud or ensure quick interactive encounter for resolution. This paper therefore proposes a systemic approach which implies giving wholistic combat to conflict-inducing factors. It further recommends that strategic decision points should be made explicit enough to students through meetings and student-management consultative forum in the universities.
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    Issues in the Administrative Behaviour of School Headteachers
    (Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2004-06-06) Onyene, V. E.
    Management and control are essential ingredients for the attainment of organisational goals, especially in the Nigerian educational system. With increased need for deregulated school system, private school administrative success or failure has come to be of great concern. This paper is a conceptual framework bordering painfully on management crisis, which is fast eroding the operation of and of course interest in private school establishment. It notes that private schools rise and fall due to two major factors of either total lack of administrative competence on the part of untrained head teachers or ignorance on the part of the proprietors who double as owner manager with short time profit-making motives. Fundamental administrative behaviour challenges are extensively discussed in this paper in a manner expected to enhance functional engagement of incumbents. There is need for head teachers to possess the right type of skills, knowledge, mastery and multiple relational styles as facilities for efficient harnessing of resources for optimal results. Thus, the paper insists that intellectual capacity, benchmarking and informational skills, group decision-making, time and task organisation, policy and programme mix, conducive interpersonal relationships as well as flexible innovative competence are required to cope with dynamics of Nigerian service environment, with the schools as the most sensitive organization. The application of the A.E.I.O.U. model is illustrated and recommended for staff involvement in running private schools.
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    Evaluation of Job Involvement Potency of Male and Female Managers in Education: Implications for Balancing Gender Gap in Employment
    (The Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, 2004-06-12) Onyene, V. E.
    This study investigated if any difference exists in the job involvement of men and women who are in the headship of Nigeria tertiary institutions. The essence of the study is to assert or disregard discriminatory practices of not having an equitable number of women at the helm of affairs in the educational system. Data were collected from 132 education managers (83 men and 49 women) at the top echelon of tertiary institution headship, using the Job Involvement (Self) instrument designed by Lodahl and Kejner (1965). Data were analyzed using student t-test, and regression statistics. Result showed among others that the tested men and women differ in their job commitment and that the variations of difference are predicted by variables other than gender, such as, age educational qualification and work experience. It is recommended that women who are into teaching or stereotype job areas should be given opportunity to head decision-making areas in education in order to achieve internal system efficiency and to sustain the standard of education.
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    Getting Higher Institution Leadership ight: Sparks from Ethical Essentials
    (Kampala International University, Kampala, Uganda, 2014-06-12) Onyene, V. E.; Iriobe, C.
    Leadership is perceived in this paper as a social process and, or a group-based activity where managers working with their subordinates (followers), are charged with the functional responsibilities of having to tacitly put together their obvious personality traits such as intelligence, dominance, self-confidence, energy, activity and their task relevance knowledge in order to move their organisations to result. The paper actually took institutional management out of the traditional manual of policy and procedure observance to address fourteen ethical variables which it illustrated that when dynamically utilised would make for strategic goal attainment, internal (institutional) efficiency and overall effectiveness. Leadership is addressed as strong set of organisational behaviour which should make use of valuable principles of higher education governance. It also presented that work, interpersonal relationships and gender-based leadership-responsive ethics are necessary conditions for forming the tone of organisational quality and standard. The challenges of competitive growth and progress rating of institutional conformity to accreditable rules made the paper explore the possibility of combining the ethics of good and bad in order to make things happen for the growth and progress of Nigeria's tertiary institutions. There is also strategic in-road into how administrative crises, challenges and ethical dilemma can be used as a seven-step decision making checklist by leaders who are envisioned, group-oriented and after goal attainment.